doctor who: the angels take manhattan
Saturday, 29 September 2012 21:06![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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Short version: in the end, not terribly impressed.
To be fair, the iPlayer kept buffering, which didn't really enhance the watching experience, but I thought it was pretty great... up until "Amelia Williams". NOPE. THAT IS NOT HER NAME. And once I was angry about that, I got annoyed that the reasons for not being able to go back for Rory made no sense: they might not have been able to go back to New York, but surely they could've gone to, say, Philadelphia and pinched another car. And the gravestone's easily dealt with: there's not necessarily anyone actually IN that grave. Bah. Those two things basically killed the episode for me: I was just starting to cry when that stupid "Amelia Williams" appeared and I started swearing instead. So we now have a complete set of New Who companion departures I've disliked. And it's all the same problem - refusing to allow the Doctor and his companions to just go their separate ways, without having to have them be separated! forever! Why can't we have companions who go "that was fun, but we've had enough now"? And "we jumped off a building together and are now slightly traumatised" would be an EXCELLENT reason to want to call it a day.
(I was really hoping that they weren't going to go the "Amy and Rory are sent back in time" route, also, because what about Brian, and Amy's parents, and their awesome life we saw last week?)
THERE WAS SO MUCH GOOD STUFF IN THAT EPISODE WHY DID THEY HAVE TO FUMBLE IT AT THE LAST MINUTE ARGH.
To be fair, the iPlayer kept buffering, which didn't really enhance the watching experience, but I thought it was pretty great... up until "Amelia Williams". NOPE. THAT IS NOT HER NAME. And once I was angry about that, I got annoyed that the reasons for not being able to go back for Rory made no sense: they might not have been able to go back to New York, but surely they could've gone to, say, Philadelphia and pinched another car. And the gravestone's easily dealt with: there's not necessarily anyone actually IN that grave. Bah. Those two things basically killed the episode for me: I was just starting to cry when that stupid "Amelia Williams" appeared and I started swearing instead. So we now have a complete set of New Who companion departures I've disliked. And it's all the same problem - refusing to allow the Doctor and his companions to just go their separate ways, without having to have them be separated! forever! Why can't we have companions who go "that was fun, but we've had enough now"? And "we jumped off a building together and are now slightly traumatised" would be an EXCELLENT reason to want to call it a day.
(I was really hoping that they weren't going to go the "Amy and Rory are sent back in time" route, also, because what about Brian, and Amy's parents, and their awesome life we saw last week?)
THERE WAS SO MUCH GOOD STUFF IN THAT EPISODE WHY DID THEY HAVE TO FUMBLE IT AT THE LAST MINUTE ARGH.
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Date: 30 Sep 2012 15:28 (UTC)Why can't they just have companions choose to leave and go live their awesome lives?! What's wrong with the implication that the Doctor pops around to see them every now and then, but we just don't see it? It's weird that the show has to have every ending be catastrophic in some way.
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Date: 30 Sep 2012 21:03 (UTC)Yes, and given that "Amy Williams" was used in exactly the same way in The God Complex, it makes it look like it's not an accidental subtext. :/
Why can't they just have companions choose to leave and go live their awesome lives?!
I really don't understand why they can't do that. It would be just as heartbreaking to have them decide that it's time to move on, only in a quieter way.